Actinide · element 100
Fermium
Made in a mushroom cloud. Never seen with the naked eye.
Only 0.3% of people are Fermium. (estimated)
If you're Fermium
Nobody has ever seen enough of you to look at. You exist in the results, in the traces, in what you leave behind.
Fermium has never been produced in visible amounts; it was found alongside einsteinium in hydrogen bomb fallout.
How to get along with Fermium
Do
- Trust the results even when you can't see the person.
- Read the traces.
- Give them room to be invisible.
Don't
- Don't demand a visible amount of them.
- Don't take absence as absence.
When it goes wrong: You'll never see enough of them to argue with. Read what they left behind.
Atomic profile
Every element is placed on six personality dimensions derived from its chemistry. Your answers are placed on the same six, and the closest element wins. How the scoring works
- Reactivity
- 5
- Sociability
- 2
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 1
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 4
Fermium in literature
- The governess — The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (1898)
- Stephen Dedalus — Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
- Nastasya Filippovna — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Fermium's. If you got Fermium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other actinides
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